Dell Precision 5690 Review
The 5690 gives Dell a stable of three 16-inch laptop workstations: The Dell Precision 5680 is still available, but it and the deluxe 7680 (which holds up to 128GB of memory and three solid-state drives to the 5690's maximum 64GB of RAM and two SSDs) use Intel's previous 13th Gen processors instead of the Core Ultras included in the new model.
This starting $2,289 5690 settles for a Core Ultra 5 135H—with, like all CPU options, Intel's vPro IT management technology—and 16GB of RAM. With only a 256GB SSD and Intel Arc Pro integrated graphics instead of one of the five available discrete GPUs, it's embarrassed to show its face around real workstations.
Our test unit—listed at $6,500.55, though most Precisions are purchased at volume discounts rather than the quantity-one price—is more like it with an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H chip, 32GB of RAM, and two 512GB NVMe SSDs in a RAID 0 array. It also replaces the 1,920-by-1,200-pixel IPS base display with a 3,840-by-2,400-pixel OLED touch screen backed by the top-rung 16GB Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada GPU.
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